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Coming up on News 7-
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Motorists hit the roads as the holiday weekend draws to a close-- causing a number of back- ups locally.
A 17- year old is in custody for allegedly shooting and killing another teenager in Danville.
And-- a taxi trying to outrun a train ends in tragedy.
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[ANCHOR=Jean]
News 7 is next.
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[Holiday-Traffic]

Good evening, I'm Teresa Hamilton.
Right now, traffic on Interstate 77 coming into Virginia from North Carolina is backed up about 20- miles due to construction.
The situation on Interstate 81 is NOT as severe but state police say traffic is heavy.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke;]

Indeed-- both Interstates have seen their share of accidents and delays, throughout the day, as travelers head back to school and home after the holiday break.
[SOT 1:39:16]
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((SGT. TOM FOSTER/STATE TROOPER: WE'VE EXPERIENCED ONE FATALITY SO FAR THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND STATE WIDE WE'VE EXPERIENCED 16 FATAL CRASHES THIS WEEKEND.))
[SUPER=01-Sgt. Tom Foster/State Police]
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[VO-NAT]

Nationwide-- an estimated 28- million people were expected to travel by car between Wednesday and today.
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[WIPE, WIPE, WIPE]

[Natl-Air]

Thousands of travelers across the country-- also took to the air today as the long holiday weekend wrapped up.
Those who flew the friendly skies didn't have to wade through traffic-- but many still had to wait in line.
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[Car-Accident]

This seven car pile up in Botetourt County closed down one lane in the south bound section of interstate 81 near Buchanan shortly before 8 tonight.
State police say the accident was caused by drivers following the vehicle in front of them too closely.
Three people were taken to the hospital.
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[SOT1:34:22]
[IN Q=This time of year]
(( THIS TIME OF THE YEAR THERE'S A LOT MORE ACTIVITY IN THE WOODS, HUNTERS GOING INTO THE DEER'S HABITAT AND CAUSING THEM TO COME OUT. ALSO THE VEGETATION IS BEGINNING TO DECREASE AND THE DEER COME OUT OF THE MOUNTAINS INTO THE SUBURBS AND GRAZE ON LAWNS AND GRASS PLANTED ON THE ROADWAYS.))
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[OUT Q=on the roadways]

And if you're like most motorists you've probably spotted a few deer.
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[IN Q=Coming home]
((ROBIN TRIPLETT:COMING HOME I'M REAL CAUTIOUS LOOKING ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD A LOT TO SEE IF ONE WILL COME OUT AND HIT THE CAR BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM OUT THERE))
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[OUT Q=out there]
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[SOT 1:47:44]
[IN Q=They'll come out]
((JIM MITCHELL:THEY'LL COME OUT OVER THE ROADS,AND IF YOU'VE EVER SEEN SOME OF THE CARS THAT HAVE BEEN HIT BY A DEER IT CAN TEAR THEM UP PRETTY BAD ))
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[OUT Q=pretty bad]
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[SOT 1:45:31]
[IN Q=Sometimes the deer]
((JOY SUTTON/REPORTER: SOMETIMES DEER APPEAR OUT OF NOWHERE CATCHING DRIVERS BY SURPRISE. BUT OFFICIALS SAY IT'S NOT ALWAYS BEST TO SWERVE TO AVOID HITTING ONE))
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[OUT Q=hitting one]
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[IN Q=Were we usually see]
((SGT. FOSTER/VA STATE POLICE:WHERE WE USUALLY HAVE MORE SERIOUS INJURY RESULT IS WHEN THE MOTORIST TRIES TO AVOID THE DEER AND THEY RUN OFF THE ROAD AND STRIKE A STATIONARY OBJECT SUCH AS A LARGE TREE OR THEY SWERVE TO THE OTHER DIRECTION ON A TWO LANE ROAD AND STRIKE ONCOMING VEHICLES HEAD-ON ))
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The driver of this vehicle swerved to avoid a deer and ended up hitting a ditch and flipping the vehicle on it's side.
That's why officials advice staying in your lane -- and applying the brakes quickly.
Officials say there have been 49 crashes in Roanoke, Montgomery and Botetourt counties in November alone -- and every year state police say there is at least one fatality here locally.
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[SOT 1:34:04]
[IN Q=Typically in this ]
((TYPICALLY IN THIS AREA DEER RELATED CRASHES INCREASE FROM AROUND 4 TO 5 PERCENT TO 12 TO 15 PERCENT DURING HUNTING SEASON))
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[OUT Q=pre-dawn hours]

Officials say it's good to use your high beams in spotting a deer -- but once you encounter one it's best to put your lights on low beam so that the animal is not distracted.
Also keep an eye out for more deer during the early evening hours just after sunset and the very early pre-dawn hours.
Joy Sutton, News 7. ))
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[ANCHOR=Teresa]
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Just tonight a State Trooper hit a deer in our area causing more than 18-hundred dollars in damage to his patrol car.

[Toss-2-Robin]
Some cooler temperatures outside-- let's head over to the weather center to find out if the cool weather is here to stay.
[WX1]
[11:00pm]
[11/28/1999]
WEATHER OFFICE
[WXPRO/FULL]WEATHER MAP
WAKE UP FORECAST

[Toss back to anchor][Danville-Murder]

An 18- year old was shot and killed early this morning outside a Danville nightspot.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Danville;]

Police say Torrenzo Dewhan Bennett of Ringgold was shot with a handgun in the shoulder, thigh and left side.
Authorities found Bennett outside Phatty Bobalatti's Pub and Grill on Piney Forest Road, around 12- thirty.
Police have arrested and charged a 17 year old with murder as well as the attempted murder of another man.
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[House-Fire]

A family watched their home go -up in smoke this afternoon in northwest Roanoke.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke]

Authorities say the fire started in the kitchen of this home on the corner of tenth street and Courtland Avenue -- and quickly spread to the rest of the house.
Charlotte Parker says she and her grandchildren were outside raking leaves, when she noticed smoke coming from inside her house.
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[SOT 6:11:13]
[IN Q=I didn't get no further]
((I DIDN'T GET NO FURTHER THAN THE DOOR TO TRY AND REACH FOR THE TELEPHONE THE SMOKE WAS SO BLACK IN THERE I COULDN'T SEE, AND THE SMOKE WAS SO STRONG I THOUGHT IT WAS BETTER FOR ME TO GET OUT.))
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[OUT Q=get out]
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[VO-NAT]

Authorities say food left cooking on the stove is to blame -- but they are calling the fire an accident.
The house was a total loss.
Parker and her family were renting the home and will be staying with relatives.
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[Smart-Road]

Construction on the so- called Smart Road in Montgomery County is moving right along, but so is the price tag.
The cost for the bridge that will cross Ellett Valley is much more than orginally expected.
Because of additional inspection and engineering costs, officials say the structure will cost an extra THREE million dollars..
The bridge will be two thousand feet long and 160 feet high, making it is the tallest in the state.

[Panda]

Employees and visitors are mourning the death
of the giant panda (shing-shing) Hsing-Hsing at the National Zoo in
Washington.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Washington, D.C.;]

The black and white bear had drawn millions of people since
arriving in the U-S more than 25 years ago as a gift from China.
(Shing-Shing) Hsing-Hsing had arthritis, irreversible kidney disease and other
ailments of old age.
He had lived to be 28, well beyond the panda's
normal life expectancy.
The zoo's associate curator of mammals-- says the
bear's body will be studied so specialists can learn more about
pandas and the diseases that afflicted Hsing-Hsing.
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[ANCHOR=Jean]
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Still to come on News 7, more mentally ill adolescents are in juvenile detention centers, the details coming up.
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[VO-NAT]
And a taxi trying to outrun a commuter train-- ends in tragedy in California.
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[Train-Ax]

Six people died last night when a taxi driver tried to outrun a commuter train, outside Los Angeles.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Compton, CA]

The train's conductor says the taxi was driving alongside the train,
and tried to beat it through a crossing.
Everyone in the car was killed.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=The taxi]
((THE TAXI CAB DRIVER MADE A LEFT HAND TURN, GOING AROUND THE RAILINGS AND SIGNALS ATTEMPTING TO BEAT THE TRAIN AROUND THE TRACKS AND WAS STRUCK BY THE BLUE LINE TRAIN. THE CAB WAS TORN INTO TWO, CAUGHT ON
FIRE. THE SIX PASSENGERS IN THE CAB WERE KILLED AT THE SCENE.))
[SUPER=01-Lt. Danny Sneed/Compton Police; :00]
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[OUT Q=at the scene.]
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[VO-NAT]

The conductor was the only person on the train.
She was treated for minor injuries at the scene.
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[Naked-Man]

At least nine people were injured in London today by a naked
man armed with a sword.
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[VO-NAT 15:14:16]
[SUPER=03-London, England]

British police say the man went on a rampage during a packed church service for children in suburban London.
Six of the injured suffered stab wounds-- including one man who lost part of a hand.
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[IN Q=I saw]
((I SAW A MAN WITH A LONG LONG LONG GOLDEN METAL
SWORD COMING NAKED INTO THE CHURCH HITTING EVERYBODY. SO BY THE TIME WE WENT OUT EVERYBODY WAS SCREAMING. ))
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[OUT Q=was screaming.]
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[VO-NAT]

Police have made an arrest.
They say the suspect is from the area, but priests at the catholic church say they don't know him.
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[Mentally-Ill]

More and more mentally ill youths are entering Virginia's juvenile correctional centers.
Officials say the number of adolescents needing treatment for mental health disorders has climbed sharply in recent years.
Currently, 47 percent of boys and 57 percent of girls in state detention centers require mental health treatment.

The percentages have risen during a period where the state has closed adolescent units at its mental hospitals.

[Sapphire]

Jem stones come in all shapes and sizes, but imagine a sapphire as big as a coconut.
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[SUPER=03-Kanchanaburi, Thailand]

A Thai jewler unveiled such a gem today at her shop near Bangkok.
She bought the rock from a local man 11 days ago for only 26 thousand U-S dollars.
She has yet to decide whether it will be cut up into smaller stones.
The stone weighing in at seven kilograms could be worth millions, but experts say it's difficult to estimate the sapphire's value before its quality and color have been fully examined.
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The year was 1918--and World War One was at it's height.
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[VO-NAT]
Coming up, a Lynchburg (sent-uh-nare-e-an) centenarian, one of the few veterans of this war still alive, shares his story in tonights Virginia Profile.
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[VA-Profile]

November marks a time for this country to honor it's Armed Service veterans of World War One.
Very few of these men are still alive-- all are at least 100 years old.
Steve Smallshaw has one serviceman's story, in this week's "Virginia Profile."
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[IN Q=It's been 81]
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[SUPER=01-Lindsay Butler/World War One Veteran; :20]
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[OUT Q=News7, Lynchburg.]

(( It's been 81 years since Lindsay Butler donned a military uniform, but the memories of those days are still fresh in this centenarian's mind.
In 1918, World War One was still raging in Europe, but Butler never had a second thought about enlisting.
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((LINDSAY BUTLER/WORLD WAR ONE VETERAN: BECAUSE MY GRANDFATHER AND MY GREAT- GRANDFATHER FOUGHT IN THE WAR.. I'M FROM THE SOUTH, I'M STILL FROM THE SOUTH AND I WAS INTERESTED IN PROTECTING PEOPLE'S LIVES.))
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[OUT Q=people's lives.]

But Butler never got a chance to see action.. he joined the Army in August of 1918 and spent just 62 days in uniform, never making it overseas.
He still remembers the day the "war to end all wars" came to a close.
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((LINDSAY BUTLER: THEY PUT US DOWN IN THE BLUES ARMORY IN RICHMOND AND SOMETIME DURING THE NIGHT I HEARD EVERYBODY YELLING `THE WAR'S OVER, THE WAR'S OVER', AND I LOOKED AND IT WAS FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING. AND THEN THE COMMANDER PUT THE WORD OUT YOU ALL CAN GET UP AND PUT ON ANY KIND OF CLOTHES YOU WANT TO, THE WAR IS OVER, AND I WANT YOU ALL TO BE COMFORTABLE AND ENJOY THE FACT THAT THE WAR IS GONE.))
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[OUT Q=the war is gone.]

But Lindsay Butler is still around.
After leaving the army, Butler got into the pharmaceutical business, working for the Eli Lilly company until 1964.
His retirement has been an active one.. filled mostly with serving his church, Rivermont Presbyterian.
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Like the doughboy statue, Butler is also a familiar sight at Veterans Day ceremonies held every year at Monument Terrace.. he's missed just one since 1918.
He didn't say so himself, but it's a safe guess the secret of Butler's longevity is a good sense of humor.
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((Reporter: How did you make it to be 100 years old? Any idea? BUTLER: I DIDNT' DIE.. (laughs).))
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[OUT Q=(laughs)]

[SUPER=X5001;][S-Skins]

After 3 chances, Washington kicker Brett Conway finally booted the game winner in overtime as the Redskins beat Philadelphia 20 to 17.
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[OUT Q=......in overtime.]
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(( The crowd was into the game as the Skins were out to avenge an earlier loss to the Eagles.
Leading 3 to nothing Brad Johnson throws the ball into the end zone it bounces off the chest of Stephen Alexander right into the hands of Mike Sellers and Washington lead 10 to nothing.
It was 10 3 Skins at the half and Washington opened the third quarter with Stephen Davis scoring from the one his 16-th rushing T-D this season and Washington led 17 to 3.
But Eagle quarterback Donavan McNabb got hot he threw two T-D passes to tight end Luther Broughton this 26 yarder tied the game at 17 to 17.
Conway missed the game winner in regulation and the Skins got the ball first in overtime. James Thrasher returns the kickoff 49 yards all the way to the Eagle 49 yard line.
After a bobbled snap on third down, Conway connects on the 27 yarder and the Skins beat the Eagles 20 to 17 in overtime.))
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[S-Giants]

Jake Plummer returned to the Arizona lineup today and threw a pair of second half T-D passes as the Cardinals beat the New York giants 34 to 24.
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[SUPER=03-East Rutherford, NJ/FOX SPORTS; :]

An outside shot of Giants Stadium.
On the inside Kerry Collins was getting his first start of the season he hooks up with Ike Hillard on this 40 yard pass play moving the ball to the Cardinal 5 yard line.
Several plays later Collins scores on the sneak and the Giants took a 6 to 3 lead.
[SUPER=30-Arizona/34/N.Y. Giants/24/;]

Plummer replaced Dave Brown in the second half and hit Rob Moore on the go ahead touchdown pass play and the Cardinals win it 34 to 24.
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[S-Browns]

Tennessee took advantage of turnovers and the Titans hold on for the 33 to 21 win over the Cleveland Browns.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Cleveland, OH/CBS SPORTS; :]

The Dog Pound was at its best as the Titans came to town.
Cleveland would take its first lead in the second quarter Tim Couch going to the air and hitting Terry Kirby he takes it to the house on the 78 yard pass play and tthe Browns led 14 to 7.
[SUPER=30-Tennessee/33/Cleveland/21/;]

After the Browns fumbled a punt return Titan quarterback Steve Mcnair scored on the one yard run and Tennessee wins it 33 to 21.
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[S-Bucs]

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost quarterback Trent Dilfer to a broken collarbone today, but they beat the Seahawks 16-to-3.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Seattle, WA/Fox-Bucs vs. Seahawks; :00]
Tampa Bay boss Tony Dungy would again watch his defense dominate the opposition today.
The Bucs got five interceptions including this fourth quarter pick by Roanoke's own Ronde Barber.
[SUPER=30-Tampa Bay/16/Seattle/3;]
Tampa Bay has now won four in a row. Ronde has two interceptions for the season.
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[S-Bogle]

One of the Roanoke Valley's coaching icons was honored today.
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[SUPER=03-Roanoke Co./This Afternoon; :00]
Dwight Bogle, who has coached in the Cave Spring Recreation foundation for four decades is retiring.
This afternoon friends, family members, former players and government officials gathered together to praise Bogle for his 39 years of coaching the same sandlot football team, the Cave Spring Lions.
The Roanoke County board of supervisors proclaimed today, "Dwight Bogle day", and the school board approved the renaming of Cave Spring's high school Stadium in his honor.
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[SUPER=01-Fuzzy Minnix/Roanoke Co. Supervisor; :00]
[SUPER=01-Ben Foutz/Cave Spring Head Coach; :17]
[SUPER=01-Terri Langford/Event Organizer; :30]
[SUPER=01-Dwight Bogle/Retiring After 39 Years as Coach; :37]
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[OUT Q=...APPRECIATE IT."]
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Mike Stevens will have more on today's festivities and Bogle's legacy this coming Friday night on Friday Football Extra.
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[S-Roanoke]

Roanoke's Jason Strickland hit a game high 22 points as Roanoke College won the Salem Bank and Trust Championship with a 73 to 57 win over Mount Union.
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[SUPER=03-Roanoke/Maroons vs Purple Raiders; :]

The Purple Raiders on the comeback as Todd Richards get the hoop inside making it 34 to 20 Maroons.
Colby Leftwich, The tournament's M-V-P nails this jumper from the side of the key, Roanoke led by 16.
The Maroons continue to hit the outside jumper this time Parrris Butlers jumper made the score 39 to 22 Roanoke.
Mount Union's Rich Baker drives to the hoop and scores but the Purple Raiders trailed by 14.
[SUPER=33-Roanoke/73/Mount Union/57/;]

Strickland scored 22 two on this drive and the Maroons win it 73 to 57.
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Couples birdied the final hole for 420-thousand dollars the richest hole in the event's history.
He also birdied 9 holes the most since the tournament began in 1983.
In 7 Skins games couples has won nearly 2-million dollars.
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Couples replaced his friend the late Payne Stewart in the field and he donated 30 perecent of his earnings to the Payne Stewart Memorial find.

[Billboard-Ad]

Everyone has seen personal ads in newspapers and magazines.
But how about a personal billboard?
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-New York, NY]

John Greeley rented a 20 by 36 foot billboard along side an apartment building in New York City.
The man who describes himself as a "handsome 38 year old single white male", and as the president of an international fitness business is looking for an "attractive, intelligent woman, 23-35" to make his life complete.
Greeley says he has received more than 300 calls since the ad was posted last month.
But if you think this is for you, wait until you hear the cost of this very public plea for love... 27 thousand dollars for three months.
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